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Astronaut captures lightning strike so bright it reflects off space station’s...

Sometimes the greatest show on Earth is off Earth. Earlier this month as the International Space Station flew above the Pacific Ocean there were thunderstorms below. And in one moment astronaut Kjell...

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The moon, Venus, Earth’s atmosphere and Texas, all in one image

This morning Scott Kelly, an astronaut spending a year on the International Space Station, sent down an awesome picture of Texas from space. Below, I’ve annotated his photo to make the features it...

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New Pluto photos reveal a complex world at the solar system’s edge

This week, for the first time since July, NASA released new images from its Pluto flyby. NASA began downloading uncompressed data earlier this month, and these are the first images from that batch. It...

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Blue Origin announcement heats up 21st century space race between Florida and...

With Blue Origin’s announcement today that it will launch rockets from Florida the 21st space race just got a little bit hotter. During the 20th century Florida’s space coast was king of U.S. launches....

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Total lunar eclipse coming Sunday. Ever wonder what would it look like from...

Most of the western world will see the fourth of four total lunar eclipses during an 18-month period on this Sunday, September 27th. The total eclipse will begin at 9:11 p.m. CT, and it’s the last one...

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NASA astronaut, five years after a bike accident cost him a ride into space,...

In January, 2011, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra was riding his bike when he had an accident and broke his hip. The timing was … unfortunate. Kopra was less than six weeks from the launch of space shuttle...

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Scientists find flowing salt water on Mars, say it’s a good place to look for...

  Scientists have discovered water flowing on the surface of Mars. For several years satellites orbiting Mars have observed dark, narrow streaks along the walls of craters and other slopes on the...

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Water, water everywhere. What does it mean for exploration?

  The discovery of liquid water percolating across the surface of Mars puts an exclamation point on what scientists have been finding during the last couple of decades: the solar system is wet. Very...

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The Martian is a great movie, but it sends the wrong message about our happy...

  I’m not a movie reviewer, so I’ll sum up The Martian simply by saying it was an engrossing book, and I think Ridley Scott did a great job translating the film into a potential sci-fi blockbuster. I...

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NASA video: Bright, colorful UFO paces International Space Station

“‘The ISS is being monitored by aliens’: Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above the space station” … That’s from the Daily Mail.   The baseline story is this: A recorded archive on...

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